February, 2009

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Great Leadership for Challenging Times

Great Leadership By Dan

updated 3/23/2020 Here are the 10 tips for leading in challenging times. They may not be any no better or worse than the rest, but they resonate for me, and I sincerely hope they will for you too. 1. Work hard and perform. Wow, isn’t that profound? I’m serious, though. As leaders, these are times that require sacrifice, hard work, and perseverance. This is how battles are won and great companies get turned around.

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Obama Calls OUT Entrepreneurs

Women's Leadership Exchange

We all heard the President's Address last night. I listened especially carefully because CNN invited me to comment live on-air on "American Morning" this am. I was smiling during most of the speech because I liked what I heard and also, because I was happy to be going on CNN. With the new Administration - transparency is the new policy. So I am being transparent, too.

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Dare you to…Get a Grip

Anese Cavanaugh

How are you engaging your employees right now? Are you inspiring trust and motivation and internal drive for growth, or are you disempowering them by holding to the stories of fear and domination in today’s economy? I met a business leader a couple of months ago, actually a quite successful business leader, who asked me if I could “Get him to stop throwing phones at his people” – I asked him if he wanted to, he said no.

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5 Easy Ways to Find Stories, Topics and Discussions to Post on Your Online Community

Managing Communities

Unhappy with the activity on your community? One way to take matters into your own hands is to start topics on your forums, allowing people who want to participate to add to the activity, rather than having them feel as if they have to create the activity. After you get past the standard sort of [.]. Tags: Promoting Your Community How Should I Participate?

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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To Lead is also to Follow

You're Not the Boss of Me

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← How Not to Waste Time at Meetings Three Key Elements for Making Change Happen → February 27, 2009 · 1:00 am ↓ Jump to Comments To Lead is also to Follow I asked a question the other day and that was, “At what point does a leader lead by following?

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Just So You Know…

Steve Farber

All my time, energy, emotion, adrenaline, etc. has been invested in the imminent launch of Greater Than Yourself starting this coming Tuesday, March 3. We have a lot going on behind the scenes to get the word out, and your help, of course, is greatly appreciated. But there’s something else happening on the same day as GTY’s birth: Kaplan is releasing the paperback editions of The Radical Leap and The Radical Edge.

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Five Recently Active, Interesting Discussions From CommunityAdmins.com

Managing Communities

CommunityAdmins.com (i.e. the big logo on the top right portion of this page) is a community for people who run communities, but also moderators and users of communities, in general. Anyone interested in online community. But, the focus is certainly on the management aspect. I thought that I would highlight five recently active, interesting discussions that [.].

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How I Decide Whether or Not Something is Appropriate For My Community

Managing Communities

Tracy O’Connor of I Hate My Message Board spoke on Twitter of a situation she was dealing with on her community, where she was trying to determine whether or not she should act on something that had been done within her community. This inspired me to talk about how I personally deal with this sort [.]. Tags: Thinking Dealing with Users.

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How Not to Waste Time at Meetings

You're Not the Boss of Me

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Establishing Direction: 5 Steps to Making Visions Practical To Lead is also to Follow → February 23, 2009 · 1:00 am ↓ Jump to Comments How Not to Waste Time at Meetings It happened every Friday morning. My colleagues and I would sit around a very large conference table, shaking the sleep out of our heads, inhaling excessive amounts of coffee and chatting about, well, whatever.

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Numbers Aren’t Everything.

Steve Farber

I have nothing against numbers. I believe in the bottom line as much as the next business person. (And, fundamentally, that’s what I am–a business person. Except maybe without the silly, stereotypical baggage). But these days, when numbers–like profits, for example–are harder to hit, we’re tempted to focus on them even more.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Establishing Direction: 5 Steps to Making Visions Practical | You.

You're Not the Boss of Me

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Message to New Leaders – Bring Your Courage to Work How Not to Waste Time at Meetings → February 20, 2009 · 1:00 am ↓ Jump to Comments Establishing Direction: 5 Steps to Making Visions Practical It is easy to think that having a vision is only for those who are at the top of the organization; for presidents and other grand chief Poobahs, but the truth is that no matter how high (or low) yo

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Message to New Leaders - Bring Your Courage to Work

You're Not the Boss of Me

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Leadership & Humility Establishing Direction: 5 Steps to Making Visions Practical → February 18, 2009 · 1:00 am ↓ Jump to Comments Message to New Leaders – Bring Your Courage to Work Have you ever had to fire someone? Not a very savory task and yet, stuff happens.

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Leadership & Humility

You're Not the Boss of Me

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← The Leadership of Integrity Message to New Leaders – Bring Your Courage to Work → February 16, 2009 · 1:00 am ↓ Jump to Comments Leadership & Humility What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left… Oscar Levant The word “humility&# can often conjure up rather dark images.

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The Leadership of Integrity

You're Not the Boss of Me

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← A Leader? Leadership & Humility → February 13, 2009 · 1:00 am ↓ Jump to Comments The Leadership of Integrity No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honour… Andrew Carnegie Good leadership relies on our ability to live our lives with courage, strength of character and honesty.

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5 Ways to Improve DE&I in the Workplace

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are critical for an organization’s success. And companies that take bold action to help ensure an inclusive workplace will win every time. Discover how your company can create a culture that celebrates DE&I while achieving higher revenue and growth.

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The Foreword to Greater Than Yourself

Steve Farber

Many of you know that Patrick Lencioni and Matthew Kelly are bestselling authors. What you don’t know, however, is that over the years they have developed a very unique and noteworthy personal and professional relationship–exactly the kind of relationship I describe (and prescribe, if that ‘s the right word) in Greater Than Yourself.

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A Leader?

You're Not the Boss of Me

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← More than One Way to Skin the Cat – Leadership Style Part III The Leadership of Integrity → February 11, 2009 · 6:11 am ↓ Jump to Comments A Leader? Many years ago, I found this poem. It is one that impressed me and continues to speak to me now.

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DoubleDay’s Press Release for Greater Than Yourself (Go Ahead…Pass it Along!)

Steve Farber

IMMEDIATE RELEASE. On-sale: March 3, 2009. Contact: Chastity Lovely. 212-782-9868. clovely@randomhouse.com. GREATER THAN YOURSELF. The Ultimate Lesson of True Leadership. By. Steve Farber. National Bestselling Author of The Radical Leap. With a foreword by Patrick Lencioni and Matthew Kelly. “GREATER THAN YOURSELF is a terrific–no, wonderful–idea.

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Leadership Style Part II – Command & Control | You're Not the Boss.

You're Not the Boss of Me

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Leadership Style – Part I More than One Way to Skin the Cat – Leadership Style Part III → February 6, 2009 · 5:00 am ↓ Jump to Comments Leadership Style Part II – Command & Control There are quite a few styles of leadership but the Command and Control style is the one we love to hate so I’m giving it some particular attention.

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No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results

Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership

Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.

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Leadership Style – Part I | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← The Leadership Relationship Shift Leadership Style Part II – Command & Control → February 4, 2009 · 2:20 am ↓ Jump to Comments Leadership Style – Part I What’s your leadership style? Well, that’s a big question. And the answer doesn’t always come readily to hand because leadership style varies from person to person and from situation to situation.

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The Leadership Relationship Shift

You're Not the Boss of Me

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← The Leadership Measurement Shift Leadership Style – Part I → February 2, 2009 · 4:00 am ↓ Jump to Comments The Leadership Relationship Shift I think the biggest (and perhaps most difficult) shift a person has to make when s/he makes a move to leadership is the Relationship Shift.

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Support Community Moderators: Don’t Tell People to Search

Managing Communities

In January, I wrote about how not to lock topics. Reader Jeremy wrote this comment: There is a certain online forum for a photo gallery I use where the Moderators are just plain mean. A good portion of the time when someone asks a question the moderator is the second or third person to respond, and [.]. Tags: Dealing with Users Managing Staff.

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My Thoughts on Jason Calacanis’ “We Live in Public (and The End of Empathy)” E-Mail

Managing Communities

On January 28, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis sent out an e-mail to his private mailing list titled “We Live in Public (and The End of Empathy).&# The e-mail talked about the state of the internet as it relates to how people behave online and how accountable they are for those actions. There is a dehumanizing [.]. Tags: Thinking Managing the Community Dealing with Users Developing Your Community.

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Innovation: Five Signs You Might Be Faking It

Every company wants to be a leader in innovation, but how can you tell if your company is really innovating or just going through the motions? See the 5 signs you might be faking innovation and what to do if you are.

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The Experience of Being on My Staff, as Told By One of My Moderators

Managing Communities

Tanner Smith is one of my moderators on the phpBBHacks.com Support Forums. He’s 17 years old and he’s been on my staff since he was 13. Often times, when I discuss community environments and maturity levels with people - age becomes a topic. How someone approaches this topic, how they talk about teenagers, impacts my [.]. Tags: Dealing with Users Managing Staff.

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More than One Way to Skin the Cat – Leadership Style Part III.

You're Not the Boss of Me

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Leadership Style Part II – Command & Control A Leader? → February 9, 2009 · 5:29 am ↓ Jump to Comments More than One Way to Skin the Cat – Leadership Style Part III In addition to the Command and Control style, there are a number of leadership styles that Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee unearthed in the book, Primal Leadership, Realizing the Power of Emotional In

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Contact Your Representatives

Women's Leadership Exchange

Women's Leadership Exchange was included at the table Friday, when I was invited to DC to hear a briefing about the Economic Recovery Act. I then witnessed President Obama signing an executive action officially creating the Economic Recovery Advisory Board, a cross-section of smart government outsiders, including small business owners, advocates for business and labor, Republicans and Democrats, appointed to keep an eye on all things related to the economic - a group that has the President's ear